Comments on: Linked In Questions http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/linked-in-questions.html Science Blog from Freelance Science Writer David Bradley Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:14:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: David Bradley http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/linked-in-questions.html/comment-page-1#comment-418831 David Bradley Tue, 06 May 2008 07:51:33 +0000 http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/linked-in-questions.html#comment-418831 For several very useful tips on how to get the most out of LinkedIn, check out the <a href="http://www.labnol.org/internet/tools/linkedin-tips-tricks-tweaks-do-more-linkedin-profile/3158/" rel="nofollow">Digital Inspiration</a> site from my good friend Amit Agarwal. db For several very useful tips on how to get the most out of LinkedIn, check out the Digital Inspiration site from my good friend Amit Agarwal.

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]]> By: David Bradley http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/linked-in-questions.html/comment-page-1#comment-355949 David Bradley Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:37:50 +0000 http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/linked-in-questions.html#comment-355949 John, thanks for your thoughts and the additional questions. I do plan to actually use the responses from LinkedIn in a subsequent post that I am still working on. I also posted a second related question that also got a lot of interesting, but less defensive answers, that I also intend to work up into a Sciencebase post. So, do make sure you're subscribed to the newsfeed so you don't miss those ;-) db John, thanks for your thoughts and the additional questions. I do plan to actually use the responses from LinkedIn in a subsequent post that I am still working on. I also posted a second related question that also got a lot of interesting, but less defensive answers, that I also intend to work up into a Sciencebase post. So, do make sure you’re subscribed to the newsfeed so you don’t miss those ;-)

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]]> By: john theibault http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/linked-in-questions.html/comment-page-1#comment-355751 john theibault Fri, 07 Mar 2008 14:29:34 +0000 http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/linked-in-questions.html#comment-355751 David, That was an interesting experiment. I guess it is encouraging that so many people rose to "defend" the accomplishments of science when they thought you might be an anti-science agitator, even though it didn't address your specific reasons for posing the question. (Or did you also receive a lot of "people don't trust science because scientists are all biased" responses?) Since you are a science journalist, you might have some thoughts on this: Do you think that one of the sources of mistrust of science is that "journalistic reasoning" (and also "legal reasoning," which is different still) is just different from "scientific reasoning." And most people get their science through journalism, not from the scientific method directly. And tangentially... We're glad that you have joined the conversation at CHF's own blog <a href="http://periodictabloid.chemheritage.org/" rel="nofollow">Periodic Tabloid</a>. David,

That was an interesting experiment. I guess it is encouraging that so many people rose to “defend” the accomplishments of science when they thought you might be an anti-science agitator, even though it didn’t address your specific reasons for posing the question. (Or did you also receive a lot of “people don’t trust science because scientists are all biased” responses?)

Since you are a science journalist, you might have some thoughts on this: Do you think that one of the sources of mistrust of science is that “journalistic reasoning” (and also “legal reasoning,” which is different still) is just different from “scientific reasoning.” And most people get their science through journalism, not from the scientific method directly.

And tangentially… We’re glad that you have joined the conversation at CHF’s own blog Periodic Tabloid.

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